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Earnings season continues with a high-volume slate of quarterly reports due in the next trading session. Notable names expected to report include Priceline.com (BKNG), Carvana (CVNA), DoorDash (DASH), Occidental Petroleum (OXY) and CRH PLC (CRH). The calendar is split between results due before the open and an extensive list slated after the close,…
Investors face a packed economic calendar on Wednesday, February 18, 2026, led by January building permits and housing starts, January durable goods orders and the Federal Open Market Committee meeting minutes. The data and policy notes are expected to shed light on housing-market momentum, manufacturing demand and the Federal Reserve’s recent disc…
PacifiCorp, a utility owned by Berkshire Hathaway, is selling a portfolio of natural gas, wind generation and transmission and distribution assets in central and southern Washington to Portland General Electric for $1.9 billion. The deal, which includes a 49% investment by Manulife Investment Management in the Washington utility business, is being …
Glen Taylor, identified as a 10% holder in Envoy Medical, purchased 18,750,000 Class A shares at $0.40 apiece for a total of $7.5 million, according to a Form 4 filing. The buy occurred while the stock was trading at $0.67 and after a 53.89% week-over-week gain. Taylor also received a package of warrants and holds additional indirect stakes through…
Guggenheim has reaffirmed a Buy rating and $68.00 price target on EyePoint Inc. following encouraging Phase III data from a rival’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) for wet age-related macular degeneration. The firm says the competitor’s success reduces risk across the TKI class and strengthens the case for EyePoint’s DURAVYU program, which now has …
Four New York City public pension funds filed a federal lawsuit accusing AT&T of improperly preventing shareholders from voting on a proposal that would compel disclosure of the company’s workforce composition by race, ethnicity and gender. The funds argue AT&T’s reliance on a recent SEC allowance to exclude proposals is unfounded and seek to block…
Adani Group announced a plan to invest $100 billion to develop renewable energy-powered, AI-ready data centers by 2035, seeking to establish the world’s largest integrated data center platform. The company projects the program will contribute to a $250 billion AI infrastructure ecosystem in India and stimulate an additional $150 billion in related …
Tania Wingfield, Executive Vice President and CHRO of BorgWarner Inc. (NYSE: BWA), sold 17,867 shares of the company on February 13, 2026, for proceeds of $1.13 million. The transaction occurred as the stock has posted substantial gains over the past year and six months. BorgWarner also reported stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter 2025 results an…
Tonit M. Calaway, BorgWarner's Executive Vice President, CAO, General Counsel & Secretary, sold 16,000 shares on February 13, 2026, generating about $1.04 million. The shares traded at a weighted average price of $65.0844, within a range of $64.87 to $65.25. After the sale Calaway holds 240,251 shares. BorgWarner shares are trading at $61.96, near …
BorgWarner Vice President Isabelle McKenzie sold 3,500 shares of company stock on February 13, 2026, generating roughly $221,410. The transaction reduced her direct holdings to 68,809 shares and was reported on a Form 4 filed with the SEC. Separately, BorgWarner reported fourth-quarter 2025 results that exceeded Wall Street expectations on both ear…
Willow Lane Acquisition Corp. II completed a $143.75 million initial public offering on February 13, 2026, selling 14,375,000 units at $10.00 apiece, including the full exercise of the underwriters' overallotment. Units trade on Nasdaq under WLIIU and, when separated, the Class A shares and warrants are expected to list as WLII and WLIIW. Managemen…
Amazon's stock wavered on Tuesday while attempting to recover from a prolonged sell-off that has erased about $450 billion in market capitalization. The company faces intensified investor scrutiny after disclosing plans for $200 billion in capital spending this year, largely tied to artificial intelligence initiatives.
Ocular has signaled that AXPAXLI, its wet-AMD program, is moving toward a potential NDA filing. That development makes the stock an actionable buy for traders who can tolerate clinical-stage binary risk. The trade below balances upside to regulatory success with a conservative stop to limit downside from filing delays, safety flags, or commercial r…
NVR Inc. director Ross Susan Williamson sold shares worth $1.58 million and exercised stock options on February 13, 2026. The company reported fourth-quarter 2025 earnings per share of $121.54, well above analyst projections, and received positive analyst reactions including higher price targets and reiterated Buy ratings.
Fastly ripped higher after a clean Q4 beat and bullish 2026 guide. The market is re-pricing edge infrastructure as an AI growth story; with strong volume, a shrinking float hangover and clear upside to former resistance, Fastly looks like a high-conviction swing trade. Entry, stop and target provided with a 45-trading-day plan and explicit risk con…
Apple has accelerated development of three wearable products - smart glasses, a wearable pendant, and upgraded AirPods - centering their functionality on Siri using visual context. Each device will pair with the iPhone and include camera systems with differing capabilities; the AirPods and pendant will employ lower-resolution cameras for AI feature…
<p>AppLovin (APP) has come off its highs but still carries premium multiples. That said, its free cash flow generation and AI-driven ad stack give it a structural advantage that justifies a tactical long entry on this pullback. We use a simple 'Rule of 150' EV/FCF threshold as a sanity check: APP's EV-to-FCF (~40x) comfortably clears that bar. Pair…
Aron M. Odom, senior vice president, controller and principal accounting officer at D.R. Horton, sold 260 shares of the company's common stock on February 13, 2026 for $167.55 per share, generating $43,563 in proceeds and leaving him with 6,457 shares directly owned. The transaction comes alongside D.R. Horton's fiscal first-quarter 2026 report, wh…
Executive Vice President and COO Michael J. Murray reported an unintended sale of 120 D.R. Horton (DHI) shares from his Individual Retirement Account on May 3, 2024, generating $17,876 in proceeds. The transaction, disclosed on a Form 4, was described as inadvertent. The stock has since risen roughly 11% to $164.96. Company-level metrics cited incl…
Iridex Corp's Chief Financial Officer, Romeo R. Dizon, recorded insider purchases on February 17, 2026, totaling $2,942 across two transactions. The buys came as the medical technology company's shares traded near $1.33. Recent company disclosures show quarter-to-quarter revenue growth, positive cash flow for the quarter, and expectations of positi…
Nvidia's leadership in GPUs and data-center networking, combined with massive free cash flow and low leverage, make the stock a compelling tactical long. Technicals are constructive, short-interest is modest relative to liquidity, and upcoming developer and earnings catalysts offer asymmetric upside. Trade plan offers defined entry, target and stop…
Alibaba shares sit on near-term technical support around $154.76 heading into the company's 02/19/2026 earnings. Fundamentals show a large-cap, profitable platform with a $377.3B market cap, P/E of 20.8 and accelerating AI-related capital spending and strategic moves (T-Head spin-off) that could re-rate the stock if execution and cloud momentum rem…
Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr said the central bank is likely to hold interest rates steady "for some time" as officials weigh evolving inflation risks and incoming economic data. Speaking to the New York Association for Business Economics, Barr emphasized a cautious approach, saying policymakers need signs that goods price inflation is sus…
PayPal trades like a mature payments incumbent that briefly forgot how to trade like one. At roughly $41, shares offer exposure to a large digital-payments network at about 7x earnings, positive free cash flow and a balance sheet that can support optionality. The trade: buy into the oversold dip, keep a tight stop below the recent support band, and…
Stephen Colbert told viewers that CBS lawyers prevented the airing of an interview with Democratic Texas State Representative James Talarico, who is running for the U.S. Senate nomination. The move follows a Republican-led Federal Communications Commission decision narrowing equal-time exemptions for daytime and late-night talk shows, and comes as …
